This year's Stroll will feature 75-80 local actors dressed in period costume portraying some of the famous, infamous and interesting people buried in the historic, city-owned cemetery. Maple Hill was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places due in part to the artistry of its pre-Civil War tombstones.

The Stroll is scheduled for 2-4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Money raised through donations goes to restore grave markers and iron work at Maple Hill.

Event Chairman Van Brown said he expects a crowd of between 3,000 and 5,000 people, which means parking will be tight. If you can't find parking around the cemetery, try the Annie C. Merts Center, 200 White St. Police will be on hand to help pedestrians cross California Street.

You can also park at Jackson Way Baptist Church, 1001 Andrew Jackson Way, and take a free shuttle to the cemetery. The shuttle will run every 30 minutes during the Stroll, which is sponsored by the Huntsville Pilgrimage Association.

All the favorite characters from past Strolls will be back including Hollywood starlet Tallulah Bankhead, who was born in Huntsville but is buried in Maryland; Molly Teal, who ran a brothel where Huntsville Hospital is now located; Albert Russel Erskine, who made the Studebaker automobile a household name in the 1920s; and LeRoy Pope Walker, who ordered the attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., that started the Civil War.

Brown said he's most excited about a new character, a freed slave named Mammy who became an integral part of the family of Alabama Gov. Reuben Chapman. When she died in 1912 at age 96, the family insisted that Mammy be buried in the Chapman plot at Maple Hill - a rarity in the days of segregated cemeteries.

Dr. Patricia Sims of Drake State Technical College will memorialize Mammy at the Stroll.

Also new to the Stroll are the Madison Belles, eight high school students from Madison who will glide through the cemetery in antebellum dresses. "I think the more people we have in costume, the more enjoyable the stroll will be for everyone," Brown told AL.com Friday.

Brown will be reprising his popular role as Lily Flagg, a Jersey cow owned by Huntsville resident Samuel Moore who produced a world-record 1,047 pounds of butter in 1892. Moore (portrayed by actor Ron Cooper) threw a grand party at the Monte Sano Hotel to celebrate Lily's weighty achievement.

In case of rain, the Stroll will be postponed to Sunday, Oct. 20. But the weather forecast for this Sunday is nearly ideal: mostly sunny with a high of 83 degrees and no chance of rain.